The panel of education experts recommended that the law be renewed but amended to limit City Hall’s power.

Craig Schley is challenging Representative Charles B. Rangel, a Harlem Democrat who has been in Congress since he defeated Adam Clayton Powell Jr. in 1970.

State regulators approved a deal that will allow the construction of hundreds of new wind turbines in New York.

Fort Ticonderoga’s caretakers are struggling to keep the historic site open after a breach between the fort’s greatest benefactor and its executive director.

The panel of education experts recommended that the law be amended to place more limits on City Hall’s power.

By his own admission, Representative Edolphus Towns is campaigning as if he were in the fight of his political life.

A subway motorman who was mugged in January chased a bystander down a Harlem block and stabbed him, then misled the police by saying he acted in self-defense, prosecutors said.

Fort Ticonderoga’s caretakers are struggling to keep the historic site open after a breach between the fort’s greatest benefactor and its executive director.

A lawsuit against the governing body of chess in the United States and some of its members was dismissed last week, but the dispute is not about to go away.

Financial documents suggest that after seven years of rule by a billionaire, control of City Hall is likely to go to a person of far humbler means.